sweetbough

Updated: May 16, 2025

Then there is the never-failing crop of birds robins, goldfinches, king-birds, cedar-birds, hair-birds, orioles, starlings all nesting and breeding in its branches, and fitly described by Wilson Flagg as "Birds of the Garden and Orchard." Whether the pippin and sweetbough bear or not, the "punctual birds" can always be depended on.

John Burroughs - Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers